underclothes

Example Sentences

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Clerics faced down troublesome non-churchmen by forcing them to publicly confess their sins before their whole community, to pray all night in church in their underclothes – and sometimes to go on pilgrimages.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2020

There are underclothes, boxers, and socks hanging out of many pension windows, which gives the area a peculiar look of having a transient camp occupy permanent space.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2015

Her shaming was loosely based on Jane Shore, the 15th-century mistress of Edward IV who, dressed only in her underclothes, did a penance walk through late medieval London.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2015

Towels, trousers and underclothes still hang from the rafters in another house where Foday Joko lived with his wife and daughter.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2014

In it Mami put a cot with its own mosquito net, a small table and chair, and a basket for my underclothes.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago